William Law Quotes

My Wife Would Not Speak Evil Of ... Anyone ... Without Cause. Joseph Is A Liar And Not She. That Smith Admired And Lusted After Many Men's Wives And Daughters, Is A Fact, But They Could Not Help That. They Or Most Of Them Considered His Admiration An Insult, And Treated Him With Scorn. In Return For This Scorn, He Generally Managed To Blacken Their Reputations - See The Case Of... Mrs. Pratt, A Good, Virtuous Woman.

The Prophet Had Made Dishonorable Proposals To My Wife... Under Cover Of His Asserted 'revelation.'... Smith Told His Wife Jane The Lord Had Commanded That He Should Take Plural Wives, To Add To His Glory... Joseph Asked Her To Give Him Half Her Love; She Was At Liberty To Keep The Other Half For Her Husband.

If Contempt Of The World And Heavenly Affection Is A Necessary Temper Of Christians, It Is Necessary That This Temper Appear In The Whole Course Of Their Lives, In Their Manner Of Using The World, Because It Can Have No Place Anywhere Else.

Men Are Not In Hell Because God Is Angry With Them. They Are In Wrath And Darkness Because They Have Done To The Light , Which Infinitely Flows Forth From God , As That Man Does To The Light Who Puts Out His Own Eyes .

Whatever Littleness And Vanity Is To Be Observed In The Minds Of Women, It Is, Like The Cruelty Of Butchers, A Temper That Is Wrought Into Them By That Life Which They Are Taught And Accustomed To Lead.

Perhaps There Cannot Be A Better Way Of Judging Of What Manner Of Spirit We Are Of, Than To See Whether The Actions Of Our Life Are Such As We May Safely Commend Them To God In Our Prayers.

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly?

If Religion Commands Universal Charity, To Love Our Neighbors As Ourselves, To Forgive And Pray For All Our Enemies Without Any Reserve; It Is Because All Degrees Of Love Are Degrees Of Happiness, That Strengthen And Support The Divine Life Of The Soul, And Are As Necessary To Its Health And Happiness, As Proper Food Is Necessary To The Health And Happiness Of The Body.

All Our Salvation Consists In The Manifestation Of The Nature, Life And Spirit Of Jesus Christ In Our Inward New Man. This Alone Is Christian Redemption, This Alone Delivers From The Guilt And Power Of Sin, This Alone Redeems And Renews.

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly? ... Wearying Himself With Climbing Upon Every Ascent, ... Bruising Himself With Continual Falls, And At Last Breaking His Neck? And All This, From An Imagination That It Would Be Glorious To Have The Eyes Of People Looking Up At Him, And Mighty Happy To Eat, And Drink, And Sleep, At The Top Of The Highest Trees In The Kingdom.

Where Has The Scripture Made Merit The Rule Or Measure Of Charity?.

A Revelation Is To Be Received As Coming From God, Not Because Of Its Internal Excellence, Or Because We Judge It To Be Worthy Of God; But Because God Has Declared It To Be His In As Plain And Undeniable A Manner As He Has Declared Creation And Providence To Be His.